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Edith's Streets

This blog records notes about London (and Greater London) streets - what the buildings are, what the background is. These pages have been compiled over many years and from many sources - its not intended to copy from other people's work.Each post represents a square on the Ordnance Survey grid -and the vast majority of information is culled from map based source material - Ordnance Survey, A/Z, etc.

On some inner city squares only a quarter of each square is done because of the volume of material involved

Please add your comments and corrections - I am sure there are lots of mistakes - and my idea is to build up a correct record interactively

Red- it is (hopefully) there nowBlue - its interesting but its goneNo colour, same as the text - don't know. needs to be verified

Aubrey Road
The Stonebridge Brook flowed north to here and then turned east

Bourne Road
A water source in this road augmented the Stonebridge Brook which turned north to Aubrey Road.

Broadway Stonebridge Brook probably rises to the rear of the Town Hall. This is at a low point in the area and it is known that a lake and a lake villa once stood here. Site
of Crouch Hall. This was a house built around 1820 which stood in the area where the
clock tower stands at the crossroads today – but on the west side of the road. In
1847 it was the home of an iron master, William Bird.It was demolished in 1888.

Site of Topsfield Hall.This Georgian
mansion was the home of the Lord of the Manor of Topsfield.It was a late 18th house built to replace
the earlier hall.It faced the Broadway in the triangle of Middle and
Tottenham Lanes. Sold to developers, Edmondsons, and demolished in 1895. ‘Topsfield’
is the old name of the manor from the
family of Thomas de Toppesfeld in1343 who came from Toppesfield in Essex.

Crouch
End or Hornsey Academy was opened by John Yeo in 1686. Crouch End school was
said to be nearly 200 years old in 1872 but the site was sold to the Imperial Property
Investment Co. in 1882. The original school building stood on the corner of
Park Road and was described as in the Elizabethan style in 1844. This
three-storeyed, weather boarded house was demolished in 1882

5
Abbey National. Site of an early Sainsburys with tiled interior which Closed in 1970s

6 Dunn’s – baker's shop displaying with the date ‘1850’ plus a
wheatsheaf decoration. ‘WM’ stands for ‘William Muddyman’ who ran the bakery
and post office in 1845.It is the oldest
building on the Broadway in plain brick.

Bank Buildings. Built by the London and South Western Bank in
1887.Now a branch of Kentucky Fried
Chicken.

Passageway beside Bank Buildings leads to a converted stables.

Town Hall. This replaced older local authority offices in
Southwood Lane, Highgate. It was built on a site which had previously been that
of the non-conformist Broadway Chapel, two cottages, an alley and Lake Villa, plus
a pond filled in in 1827. The Town Hall was
built in 1935 for middle class, Middlesex, Hornsey by the young New Zealand
architect, R.H Uren, who had won the
competition.It was opened by the Duke of
Kent and as the first English town hall
in the tradition of Dudok's Hilversum was highly
regarded and influential.It is in red
brick free from ornament with a clock tower and a large assembly hall. The
entrance to the offices, below the tower had ironwork, and stone carving of
arms of the Borough of Hornsey by A.J. Ayres.It is placed well back from the road
creating a forecourt. Uren won the RIBA bronze medal for London in 1935 and was
one of the first 1930s buildings to be listed..

Clock Tower. This dates from1895
and was a testimonial to Henry Reader Williams chairman of Hornsey Local Board
and designed By F. G. Knight.It has a bronze portrait
relief by William’s friend, Alfred Gilbert.

Barclays Bankin what was the Hornsey Gas Company Showrooms. This
was also designed by Uren as part of an ensemble.It has panels about the gas industry by A.J.
Ayres.

Electricity Office. Also by Uren adapted from the 1938 telephone
exchange. A carved brick panel by Ayres to represents the spirit of electricity.

Wilson’s Department Store. Demolished for shopping terrace which included
Budgen and Woolworths

Bank on the corner of
Crouch End Hill dates from the 1940s.This
is on the site of a smithy demolished by Messrs. Hill in the 1890s.

Bryanstone Road

35 timber box extension to the house with a glass link to it.

Cecile
Park

Street built in the 1880s-90s; by John
Farrer for the Weston family. Named for Cecile House.

Chestnut Avenue

Named for
‘Chestnuts’ in Middle Lane, later replaced by Chestnut Court. The western end
of the road would have been skirted by Priory Brook as it met Cholmondley Brook
flowing northwards

Christchurch Road

Site of Oakfield House.

Crouch End

In a place name ‘End’ means an outlying area
and ‘crouch’ means a cross. So this could have referred to something like a boundary
post or a wayside cross. The name is first found in the mid 15th.However a Stephett atte Cruche lived
here in the 14th. The hamlet itself, on the Tudor route out of
London to the north, lies in a hollow
between two ridges and is sometimes known locally as Hornsey Vale. A ridge runs
across the district once known as the Hogs Back. An enclosure award in 1813 was
followed later by the railway which allowed for development from a group of cottages
and interspersed big houses into a suburban centre.

Crouch End Hill

Road on the Tudor route to the north. Trees in the area
were preserved in the 1940s through the efforts of Cllr.F.E.Cleary.

2 King’s Head.The pub dates from 1892 and replaced an earlier
building. There is a cast
iron street name plaque at first floor level.

23 Railway Tavern. This is a 1930s half-timbered pub. Not particularly
near a railway.

35-37 Hogshead, closed

Exchange House.This
was built for the Telephone Exchange in1953 by
F. W. Holder.The stepped side was for a never built relief
road.It was converted to flats in 2002.

Crouch Hill

104 Kestrel School. Private school for
autism.This building was previously the
Mountview
Theatre School- A posh house built for George Shadbolt in 1871.

113 Red Gables. Probably by the local builder W.J. Collins. This could
have been built as a show house for the estate. Used as a local
authority family centre but now sold.

Alleyway by 118 part of an
old relic as a separate strip of land

Park Chapel. Congregational chapel first built here in 1854.It was very successful in the 19th under the
Rev John Corbin and Alfred Rowland. It seated 1,480 and had a Willis Organ. In
1978 the congregation united with Baptists and the building became redundant. Corbin
Memorial Hall was added in 1893. It replaced a defunct schoolroom and there is
a foundation stone laid by Rev. Rowland. This is a large complex of buildings
one element of which is now Mount Zion Cathedral

Denton Road

Weston Park Primary School

Drylands Road

1 ground floor remodelled to open up a courtyard in the centre of the
house

Elder Avenue

This was developed by John Farrar in 1889 at
the same time as Weston Park, on part of the Elder Estate. It was named after
Henry Weston Elder, a City bristle merchant.He died in 1882 and the estate was sold in 1892 when his widow
died.

Topsfield Parade wall which has a terracotta plaque and stone balls. Passage
way leading to a converted stable block.

Corner shop with a date stone

Earl Haig Memorial. Royal British Legion
Hall. Now closed

Elm Grove

St.Peter in Chains Roman Catholic Infant
School

Felix Avenue

Bakery at the northern end 1950s

Ferme Park Road

Land to the west of this was developed by
the Elder family in the 1890s. The road and estate were built by the Streatham
and Imperial Estate Co.On the site of fields
of Haringey Manor.

Ferme Park Yard

Only the extreme north west corner of the
rail yard is on this square.

Tottenham Lane Electricity Workshops

Warehouses alongside sidings

Botswana Meat Commission Ecco Cold Store. BMC was
established in 1965 to promote Botswana’s livestock industry. Its headquarters
is in Lobatse.

Granville Road

Granville Road Spinney. This was farmland until the
1870s after which it was housing. In 1944 it took a VI and seven houses were destroyed.
These were replaced by prefabs but since 1980 it had been open land. There is a
meadow and central woodland plus a small boggy area

Haringey Park

The Stonebridge Brook flowed eastwards parallel and north of this road.This was the first suburban street in Crouch
End, laid out in 1845.

Floral
Hall-
greenhouse roofed building used by the antiques trade

Hornsey Library. This was built in 1965 to replace a library of 1899
in Tottenham Lane. Designed by F.Ley & G.Jarvis, with a gallery, foyer and courtyard. There is
a large staircase window with engraved map of Hornsey by F.J. Mitchell.There is also pool with bronze sculpture by
T.E. Huxley-Jones. New Gallery was the children’s library with a separate
entrance

Ravensdale
Mansions – large red brick blocks

Coach
building works here in the 1950s

Hermiston Avenue

Rokesley Infant School and Nursery

Inderwick Road

Hornsey School for Girls

Lynton Road

The Grove – housing for the elderly for Haringey built in 1970 in
brick by HKPA.

Mayfield Road

St Luke. Built in 1902-3 by J.E.K. and J.P. Cutts in red brick and
converted
to housing in the 1970s.This had begun
as iron mission built by the London Diocesan Mission.

Stationers
Company Schoolmoved here from Fleet Street in 1895. It started as the Stationers'
Company's Foundation School In 1861 near Fleet Street. In 1891 it moved to Hornsey, as a Grammar
school. The girls' school was Hornsey High School. It became a
comprehensive boys' school in 1967, closing in 1983and has subsequently had a variety
of different uses.

St. Stephens
Close. On the site of the stationer’s School

Stationers'
Park. Built on the site of the Stationers Park School and opened in 1987. Green
flag and many facilities,

Middle Lane

An old route going between Crouch End and
Turnpike Lane. The triangle between this and New Road and Park Road have
two-storey houses and cottages which was a development of 1850-4 by Joshua
Alexander and William Bradshaw.

9-35, semi-detached houses 1850

Crouch End Health Centre. Built in 1984 by Haringey Architects’ Department.

Clemence Court. Flats built for Hornsey Borough Council in 1957.

Margaret Hill House. Flats built in 1993 for Hornsey Housing Trust – with a
corner turret of brick banded in stone, by
Marden & Knight.

Chestnut Court on the site of
Chestnuts – local ‘big’ house

Middle
Lane Methodist Church

Priory
Park. This was built in two stages. The part along Middle Lane is the earliest
and was developed by Hornsey Local Board, led by Henry Reader Williams, in the
1890s. It was called 'Pleasure Grounds'.

Granite
drinking fountain in the park. It says 'The gift of C. T. P. Metcalfe 1879'. He provided this to replace the pump in The
Broadway and it was later moved here.

Reservoirbuilt in the 1980s

Middle Lane Mews

The mews provided access to the back of the
Hippodrome.

Globe works – bakery converted to housing

“Western Laundries” painted wall sign

Montague Road

Built on the site of a house called
Abyssinia which faced onto Tottenham Lane.

Mount View Road

Hornsey Reservoir Cottage.

New Road

15 prize-winning front garden

Park Road

2 restaurant in comer building which was once a post office and before
that a corn chandler, Forbes Boden

21 Banners Wine Bar. With decorative mural down the side

48 tiny corner shop with the 1877 school foundation stone.

Rathcoole Avenue

Developed by J.C.Hill in the grounds of a
house with that name.

Rokesley Avenue

Rokesley Junior School. The school was first
built by Middlesex County Council 1932

Spencer Road

Albert buildings and Albert works

Tottenham Lane

Fairfield,
was sold with the Topsfield Estate in 1894,

Topsfield Parade, 1895.The parade was
built on the estate of Henry Weston Elder replacing Topsfield Hall, developed
by Edmondsons developers of Muswell Hill. They built the shops which are identical to those
in Muswell Hill

31 Topsfield Parade,Fitness Centre. This was the entrance to the Queens
Opera House – also called the Hippodrome. The hall was in a triangular space to
the rear and was originally intended as a public hall.In 1897 it opened as a theatre by H.H.Morell
and F.Mouilett to seat 1,200. The original architect was a Mr. Woolnow.
It was lager redesigned by theatre architect Frank Matcham In 1903 it became a music hall and from 1910 included
a cinema. In 1928 it was taken over by the Gaumont British Theatres
chain who added sound in 1929. In 1942, was closed permanently following a
fire. In 1948 part of it became a dancing school and in 1958, Grattan’s mail
order company used their London distribution point. When they left much of the
remains was demolished but the façade was restored and is now in use.

184 YMCA
been there since 1929

128
Hope and Anchor

159
Music Palace pub. This was built as the Salvation Army Citadel

161
Islington Gazette

Engineering
works

Print
works

Queen's Hotel. A grand pub built 1900. It has a turret and floral Art
Nouveau glass by Robert Cakebread plus fancy ironwork. Inside are with original
mahogany fittings dividing up the separate bars.Built by J.C.Hill the developer of this and Broadway
Parade. The circular entrance has a mosaic
floor bearing the monogram of Mr Hill and Q for Queen’s.

Holy Innocents. An Arthur Blomfield church, of 1877 in brick and has
a tower close to the road. Inside is a stained glass window commemorating Peter
Robinson of the department store. The Reiger-Kloss Krnov organ coming from Czechoslovakia was brought here from the
Humbervale Church in Toronto where it had been since 1964 owned by Mrs. Dagmar
Kopecki for her studio

Hornsey Police Station. Built 1915 by J. D. Butler

136
The Old Schoolhouse. Hornsey Historical Society.Early Victorian infant school closed 1930 and re-opened for the society
in 1981. John Henry Taylor 1884.

Plaza
Cinema. The Cinema Theatre was listed as operating from at least 1912. In around
1925, it was re-named Perfect Picture House and had a seating capacity of 600.
In 1929, it was re-furbished and Western Electric sound equipment was
installed. It was re-named Plaza Cinema. It was independently operated throughout
its life and was closed in September 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. The
Plaza Cinema never re-opened. Flats opposite end of Inderwick Road

Flats
on the site of Century House.In the
1940s L.A.Britton pickle factory

St,
Mary’s church of England Primary School, rebuilding had been paid for by the
grocer David Greig, a former pupil. Demolished 1971,

Weston ParkStonebridge Brook flows eastwards and parallel behind the houses on the north side and continues under the railway lines.Developed with houses by architect John
Farrar as part of the Topsfield Estate.Named after Henry Weston Elder a City bristle merchant.He died in 1882 and the estate was sold in
1892 when his widow died.

13 plaque to actress Lilian Harvey.1906-68.

Union Church

Womersley Road

Womersley
House.This was the home of Peter Robinson of the
department store.

Friday, 27 April 2012

The Cholmeley Brook tributary flows north
and eastHere the A1 road climbs on one of its several bypasses up and out of the City on its way to Scotland. The legendry version of Dick Whittington was here and a vast hospital complex and other institutions were named for him. Housing lies on either side of the road - council estates in Islington, posher housing towards Highgate.Post to the north Crouch EndPost to the west Highgate

This
could be claimed as the first great by-pass road. It branched off the Great
North Road at the Archway Tavern to avoid the the steep climb of 400 ft up to Highgate Village. In 1813, plans were
made to tunnel through difficult clay below the summit of the hill. A new road
was to go by tunnel through the hill for about three hundred yards and then
rejoining the Great North Road but it collapsed. It had been built in 1809 and
was a tunnel arched with brick but in 1812 the brickwork gave way, the ground
above the tunnel cracked and the arch fell in. They heard the crash at Kentish Town.An
open road was built and opened in 1813 – it was on the line of the tunnel, with
a reduced gradient, and an archway built in heavy brickwork to carry Hornsey
Lane over it.This was a commercial toll
road and in 1829 it was taken over by the Commissioners of the Holyhead Road.
Tolls were abolished in 1876. Eventually the archway became too narrow for the
traffic, and it was demolished in the 1890s and replaced by another a hundred
yards further north. Even so the climb is still severe for pedestrians and
cyclists.

Archway Bridge. Constructed by the London
County Council with Alexander Binnie as engineer and contractor Charles
Wall.Binnie’s bridge has decorative cast iron and dolphin lamp copies like
those on the Embankment.

Whittington
Almshouses. Sir Richard Whittington founded almshouses next to St Michael Paternoster
Royal in the City. These almshouses moved to Highgate in 1808 and to East Grinstead
in 1966. They were administered by the Mercers Company.

St Augustine of Canterbury. Designed by J. D. Sedding, 1884-7 although the nave
completed by H. Wilson and Repaired by J.H. Gibbons after a fire in 1924. Sedding’s interior
has been described as unconventional. In 1881 the vicar of All Saints bought a
part of the old Winchester Hall estate and the church schoolroom moved there in
1882 became the church of St. Augustine. a permanent church was began andthe chancel was consecrated in 1888 and more
opened as the years went by, Eventually it has a bell-tower higher than
originally planned a life-size stone Calvary, on the front.The level of ceremonial, led to a Protestant
demonstration in 1914.

Toll Gate was on the corner of Lidyard Road. It closed in 1871

Whitehall Mansions. Built 1895 and done up
in 1981. Massive mansions block with dated pinnacle

London Underground electricity substation.
This is above the Northern Line and looks a bit Holden.

Charlotte Despard pub, this was previously
called The Settle Inn. Now named after the 19/20th campaigner and
suffragist.

Parish Hall - Brick building

Ashmount Road

Ashmount Primary School.Built in 1957 by H. T Cadbury Brown, with the
Hills steel frame glazing system then in vogue. Dramatic wall of glass on the
Hornsey Lane frontage

Avenue Road

The Cholmeley Brook runs along the back of
the north side of the road along the playing fields.

Beaumont Rise

17-23 Elthorne
Community Care Centre,

Buxton Road

Hornsey Rise Estate. Built 1979

Calverley Grove

Named for 19th poet Charles
Calverley

Hathorne Terrace – self build homes.

Cardinals Way

Hillside Estate built 1975

Cheverton Road

Building started here from the 1880s

Names for sculptor Benjamin Cheverton

Claremont
Road

This is
solid turn-of-the-century housing in quiet side streets

21a the line of the Cholmeley Brook runs via
the archway next to this house.

Town House on the corner with Stanhope road
marks the line of the Cholmeley Brook

Colwick Close

Houses by David West of Mcmillan West
Architects, 1976, tucked behind 19th houses

Crouch End Station Opened 1867 when it had beenbuilt by the Edgware Highgate and
London Railway. The entrance was on the east side of Crouch End Hill south of
Haslemere Road. It was a typical
suburban station of the 1860s consisting of a single storey building in brick. It
Closed in 1954. At first it was converted into a café but has since been
demolished and replaced.There are some
remains below on the Parkland Walk which is on the track bed. There was a brick retaining
wall on the north side, and the track then went under a pedestrian bridge, and
to the two platforms at the station.Stairways
went down to the wooden platforms from the street level buildings. One of the concrete supports for the name board remained complete
with rusting metalwork. A few courses of bricks survive from part of the
platform buildings.

Siding behind the down platform, entered from the country end

Signal
box.This stood opposite the
junction with the passenger line, west of the Crouch End Hill bridge.

Bridge.Under the bridge emerging from
the brickwork is the scary figure of a spriggan - said to steal children and
leave baby spriggans in their place. The bridge was remodelled in 1970 when the
station was demolished and a parapet of inverted arches added so you could look
down the Parkland Walk.

83 Unison Housing Associations branch.It is claimed that the building can be seen
in a 19th photograph next to the station building and possibly part
of it.

Crescent Cafe. These are not the actual station
buildings but appear to be something to do with the railway.

Despard Road

Suspect it is named for Edward Despard,
soldier, hero executed for alleged plot

Dresden Road

Built in the 1870-80s

Duncombe Road

The road is named for Thomas Duncombe MP for
Finsbury 1834-61 who was instrumental in setting up Finsbury Park.

Duncombe Hall. In 1885 this was Duncombe
Road Chapel, and became in 1902 a Seventh Day Adventist College. Now site of
the housing on the Duncombe Estate.

Mount Carmel School. The building was originally
Archway Secondary Boys School. Began as Duncombe Road Board School. It became a
primary school in 1945 and renamed in 1951 as a boys secondary school. In 1981 it
was an annexe to George Orwell School. Now Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Technology
College for Girls

Elthorne Road

At one time this was Redcap Lane

Fitzwarren Gardens

Built up in 1904 and said to be named for
Sir Richard Whittington’s wife

Hazelville Road

Hornsey Rise Baptist Church. Founded 1871 in
Duncombe Road and on this site in 1881. Bombed and rebuilt 1948

Islington Boxing Club. This is on what was
Bovis’s site –a boys club opened by singer Frankie Vaughan

Hornsey Rise Estate on site of Alexandra
Orphanage,

Alexandra Orphanage.Opened in 1864 for the infant orphans of respectable
mechanics. After moving in the 1920s it became the Royal Alexandra and Albert
School.

2 Aged Pilgrim's Friend Society. Opened in
1871 and closed 1973, this was a home for 120 pensioners at the northern corner
with St. John's Road. It was a two-storeyed building designed by F. Boreham
around a courtyard with chapel, hall, and committee rooms.

Arthur Henderson House. Local authority
housing of 1939. Named for Arthur Henderson, first Leader of the Labour Party,
and a Cabinet Minister.

Bruce Glasier House. This is local authority
housing of 1939. Named for Glasier who was the second leader of the Independent
Labour Party

Caroline Martyn House. This is local
authority housing of 1939. She was an Independent Labour Party member who
founded the Socialist Sunday Schools.

Enid Stacey House local authority housing of
1945. She was an Independent Labour Party member, suffragist and member of the
Clarion movement.

John Wheatley House local authority housing
of 1945. Wheatley was a member of the Independent Labour Party and an activist
in the Red Clydeside movement.

Kier Hardie House, local authority housing
of 1945 rebuilt 1963. Leader of the Independent Labour Party and early Labour
Member of Parliament.

Louise White House local authority housing
of 1977

Margaret McMillan House local authority
housing of 1945. She was a Nursery education pioneer

Mary McArthur House. This is local authority
housing of 1939. She founded the National Federation of Women Workers.

Elthorne Park. Local park, with laurel-lined walkways and woodland.
The Noel Baker Peace Garden - named after the 1959 winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize - is an example of late-20th garden design. Centred around a
water feature and bronze sculpture, it uses brick and York stone paving
with planting, in green, grey and white and some brighter colour. It was designed by Steve Adams and laid under the
supervision of Islington Councilin 1983 when five cherry
trees were planted in the central lawn around a circular stone plaque.

Sunnyside
Community Garden. This garden at the end of St. Johns Way includes a wildlifearea with
ecology and horticultural therapy centre, woodland and nature pond.

Henfield Close

Flats around large communal gardens, with
playground.

Highgate Hill

Highgate
Hill forms a part of the ancient road from Islington to Highgate, which is said
to have been constructed by one of the hermits who was extracting gravel from the ponds (so that’s what hermits
did)In 1884 the first cable
tramway in Europe was opened but closed following an accident in 1894.

89 Whittington
and Cat. Irish pub in a mid 19th building.

Calvert Court. Site of Unitarian Church which closed in 1961 and was demolished, and also Spears
Memorial Hall named for Robert Spears who founded Channing School later became
the first minister of Highgate Unitarian Church

The Academy. Flats in the buildings ofWhittington School. The date of 1880 is outlined in
brickwork on one of the gables. The school was opened by S.B.L. for boys and
girls. It was subsequently reorganised in 1932 for and used senior girls and
then in 1947 when it became a primary, It was Closed 1957 and used as part of Archway
George Orwell Schools.

Holmesdale
Road

The road
skirts the cutting of the old Finsbury Park – Highgate line and then follows it
downhill. The tunnel mouths can be seen below at the end of the tree-lined
cutting. The road was built up with varied housing in the 1880s and 1890s.

Hornsey Lane

This was once called Duval's Lane – and he
was a handsome highwayman. It is the continuation of a medieval road which
linked Watling Street at Kilburn with Ermine Street at Tottenham – an old road
on the Islington/Haringey borders. It was cut in two by the Highgate cutting.

Highgate Archway - bridge across the cutting of Archway Road with spectacular
views. The present bridge is 1897-1900 by Alexander Binnie with elaborate
decoration and railings. The dolphin lamps are copies of the Embankment
design by Vulliamy. There is a telephone
for potential suicides and other facilities under consideration.

Ashmount Primary School – the wall to this school, in Ashmount road, is of
frosted green glass and on the boundary wall a scary bronze cockerel by John Willaas

St Aloysius’ College.
Founded in 1879 by the Brothers of Mercy as a Roman Catholic Independent
part boarding and day school it then became a Grammar School and College was
passed to the De La Salle Brothers in 1960. It became a Comprehensive school in
1971. It is the oldest surviving foundation of its kind in the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Westminster.

War
Memorial outside St. Aloysius’ School. In the form of a wayside Calvary, with marble relief and wrought
iron screen. It includes the inscription TO THE SACRED AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE
ALOYSIANS WHO GAVE THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR. 1914-1918. AT SEA, ON LAND,
AND IN THE AIR. DUTY WELL DONE: REST WELL WON. REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR THOUGHTS.
REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS.

12 Highgate Nursing Home. This was the
Bethanie Convent Nursing Home and designed for them – there are rooms with
balconies overlooking the view.Gardens landscaped with
decking and a sensory garden

Fitzwarren House, within the same grounds,
as the Highgate Nursing Home and also BUPA.

Oldfield Mews. Earlsmead House. In the Great
War this was the Earlsmead Home of Recovery. In 1918 Mr. E.G. Harrop loaned the use of his
home, Earlsmead, to the Great Northern Central Hospital for use as a
convalescent home.

Reservoir. New River Company built
covered reservoir storing water for local consumption pumped from Fortis Green. New River
Company Engine House, which pumped to the higher parts of Highgate and
Hampstead with two pumping engines, 1859, stock brick with stucco pediment. Base of large chimney

Garton House. Nine storey tower block designed for single people in
1980 by Colquhoun & Miller for Haringey.

Ridgeway Gardens. Gated house project with six storey towers built in 1988
by Douglas Paskin Associates.

Northwood
Hall. Vast complex of 194 art deco flats. Built in 1935 by Richard Costain
Limited to designs by George Edward Bright.

Hornsey Rise

Street on the steep rise on the way up to
Highgate. Once many speculative villas now largely local authority housing

Hornsey Rise Gardens

Previously called Crouch End Crescent.

Langdon Park Road

St Augustine Vicarage and Church Hallby J.S. Alder, 1901 and 1905.

Milton Avenue

Manholes on the corner with Milton Park and
by the steps to the Parkland Walk. These mark the line of Cholmeley Brook which
has come under the walk from the corner of Northwood road

Miranda Road

Up to the 1880s the road was Albert Place and
Albert Road

Mulkern Road

The Royal Oak Pub

31 The Fisherman.In the 1930s this was Evans Concisnum,
Limited. Cigarette making machines

Northwood Way

The road
is crossed by a narrow single file railway arch under the trackbed of the old
Finsbury Park to Highgate line. The brickwork of this bridge must represent
some of the most original infrastructure on the whole line. A LNER trespass
board stood above it alongside the line.

Pauntley Street

Pauntley is the village where Dick
Whittington was born.

Blue plaque to the site of the toll gate on Archway
Road.

Collins and Hayes furniture factory 1940s.

Whitehall Park Garden – small community maintained
garden on the slip road

Pilgrim Way

Housing dating from 1976

St John's Way

129 Caxton House Community Centre. Opened 1976.
This was a development of the Caxton House Settlement set up in the 1940s in a
church hall to improve the area pre-redevelopment.

Islington Workhouse. The main building, stretching right along half of the road, and served then
whole area. The institution had its own infirmary and chapel in its grounds. It
was built in 1869-70 to designs by RH Burden in brick and was T-plan layout
typical of its time. It had a central section with administrative offices and
Master quarters, with male inmates accommodated in the west wing and females in
the east. There was a dining-hall with the chapel behind, and beyond that the infirmary
with four blocks .The central section had a large cupola and tower with a clock.
It was taken over by the London County
council and renamed Hillside. It closed in 1972, and has been demolished apart
from the board-room and office

Flats in what was the Eastgate
wing of the workhouse latterly the Roger Casement Irish Centre

Singing Kettle – the workhouse
was used for Hungarian Refugees in 1956 who opened their own café there,

Hillside Park – opened on a steep slope on the
site of some of the workhouse grounds.

Cottages and mews buildings in the old
stable yard of the Angel Inn. There are granite setts and a coach house which was
open-sided with a workshop in the roof plus stables and accommodation. It has
been converted to flats and a fitness studio.

Archway Road

Cholmeley
Brook – the brook crossed archway road from Causton Road – and work in the 19th
to culvert it may have led to later subsidence. Many of the buildings on this
stretch have been owned by the Department of Transport and subsequently sold to
property companies

Cholmeley Evangelical Church. In1886 as
‘Christians who assemble at the Cholmeley Mission’ met over a shop at in
Archway Road. Money was given by Mr. Boake and a church for the brethren built at
no. 272. The church expanded both in religious and social work.In 1986 the church had to be rebuilt, but as
a result a new congregation was set up, the current building dates from 1989 by Noel Isherwood Associates.

206 The Winchester Tavern. This was
previously called The Winchester Hall – and the name remains on the facade.
Site of a brick 18th mansion house of the same name

Highgate Hill Merugan Temple. The Hindu
Temple Trust bought the site in 1979 following a struggle to get people
interested and with help from a temple in Wimbledon

179 –corner shop with lighthouse on the
gable.

Bacons
Lane

The road is named after Francis Bacon who
lived in the area. A small group architects' own houses have views over the cemetery. They were
built in the kitchen gardens and orchard of Old Hall and were designed to fit
around existing trees.

1-2 is by Peter Cocke of the Architects' Co-Partnership,

4
was built
in 1955 by and for W.L. Youille of Design Research Unit,

5 was built in 1955 for
Anthony Cox of the Architects' Co-Partnership,

6
built
in 1961by Leonard Manasseh.In the garden is'Youth', a sculpture by Daphne
Hardy-Henrion (Mrs Koestler), made in 1951 for the Festival of Britain to stand
outside the Manasseh’s '51 Bar. Manasseh designed the raised garden in which it
is set.

7
built
in 1961by Leonard Manasseh

8 built in 1961by Leonard Manasseh for himself

Bisham Gardens

Built on the site of Bisham House c. 1891,
which In the 1820s was the home of Capt. Peter Heywood, midshipman on the
Bounty.A house had been on the site
since 1565 and the grounds stretched from High Street to Swain's Lane. It was
demolished in the 1870s.

Broadlands Close

Built in the late 1960s.

Broadlands Road

A building lease for large houses here was
given to an architect called John Groom, in 1878. Both sides were built in the
1880s.

1 Misshapen
bricks with glazed surfaces are used in the garden wall. Maybe from the
brick kilns on Hampstead Heath

2a The old Post Office

Pillar box marked “ER”
- Edward VII, It is an early cylindrical freestanding “pillar” box and,
like many others, marks the site of a former post office

14
Apollo House – flats on the site of home of grocer
John Sainsbury

16
Enderleigh. Built in 1879, it is claimed as the first house built in the road. It
is a Gothic style 19th stone house.

Castle Yard

Opened up as a road in 1894

Name from pub called The Castle which stood
on the south corner until about 1900, when it was a tea room/working men’s club

Late 19th houses

Infants school here between 1833-1852

Causton Road

Cholmeley
Brook – the brook flowed form Cholmeley Crescent into a lake, where a hollow is
now and then went along the south side of the road

Built up by the 1890s although some plant
nurseries still survived in the area.

Cholmeley Crescent

Cholmeley
Brook – the three branches of the brook converge here. There are gaps in
buildings in the road which indicate its path.It then flows eastwards along the line of the rear gardens on the inner
bend

The road
was built up in the late 1930s

7 concrete and brick Brutalist house with north-light
studio above

Cholmeley Park

Victorian Lodge which was on the drive to
Cholmeley Lodge, now demolished

Cholmeley Lodge. Art Deco flats built in 1934
and designed by Guy Morgan. These replaced a house of that name which had itself
replaced the Mermaid Inn on the corner with High Street

Furnival House, built 1916 and designed by
J. H. Pitt, used by female domestic staff of the Prudential Assurance Co. Above
the entrance is the date of 1916 in Roman numerals. There is also a plaque with
the company's arms and a female head. Inside arms include the motto 'Fortis qui
Prudens'- Strength to the prudent. After 1928
it was used as a home for nurses from the Whittington hospital and is now
student accommodation

55a Harington Scheme. A project teaching
horticultural and other skills to young people.

Cromwell Avenue

Middle class housing by the Imperial Property Investment Company built after
the demolition of Winchester Hall.

65 Savarkar – blue plaque to Indian
philosopher

Highgate Presbyterian Church. This building
at the corner of Hornsey Lane dates from 1887. In 1967 it became part of
Highgate United Reformed Church and this building was used until 1982 when it
was converted to flats.

Dartmouth Park Hill

Part of the old main road.

Highgate Mental Health Centre. This is in
the buildings of what was Highgate Hospital – which was the St Pancras Union
Infirmary. It opened in 1869 on the St Pancras side of Dartmouth Park Hill with
advice from Florence Nightingale. It was later sold to the Central London Sick
Asylum District but in 1893 returned to St Pancras as North Infirmary. In 1930 it
was taken over by the London County Council as Highgate Hospital and grouped
with other hospitals nearby and in 1948 joined the NHS. It is now the Highgate
Mental Health Centre but many original buildings remain. The Whittington cat
motif is on the entry doors.

Dartmouth Park Lodge. Gatehouse to Waterlow Park

Duke’s Head Yard

Studio House.Built in 1939
for artist Roger Pettiward aka the cartoonist Paul Crun. It is an early work by
Herbert Tayler & David Green and it is a Tower because of the confined site
at the end of the owner’s garden. It has a roof garden with great views.

Fitzroy Park

The area evolved around aristocratic houses
from the 17th including one built by General Charles Fitzroy. This
section of road leads to the area where most were sited.

Highgate

The village was essentially the hill top
meeting place of roads – including the main route north out of London which met
an older track along what are now Hampstead Lane and Southwood Lane, while
skirting woodland. At the top of the hill were a pub and a chapel.

Highgate Avenue

Developed in the 1890s on the land of Oak
Lodge.

Highgate Close

Built in 1968 on the site of the Highgate
Vicarage.

Highgate High
Street

The raised pavement offers protection
against a dirty road.

Cholmeley
Brook – one branch of the brook rises on the east side near Southwood Lane

1 Fairseat.
Channing School for Girls. Junior School.
In the Great War this was occupied by Russian Grand Duke.It was built by Sydney Waterlow in 1872 as
his home and on the site of earlier house.

10 White House. Late 17th building with 18th
additions

16 Duke's Head pub

17-23 terrace built 1733 with raised ground floors and original
staircases

23
Englefield House 1710

33 Prickett and Ellis. This firm have been estate agents in Highgate
since 1767. Frederick Prickett, wrote a ‘History of Highgate; published in
1842.

36a 17th house

37 Angel Inn. The pub was established here by the 16th but
was rebuilt in 1880 and altered.

38 has a low oak-beamed interior and was perhaps a small 16th
house

39-45 Old Forge.The earliest reference to this site is in
1664, when Thomas Sconce blacksmith built a house here and a forge which stood
at the corner of Pond Square, facing Angel Row, called Dodd’s Corner until
1896. It was replaced by a printing works, and became a turning ground for
trolley-buses in 1947

42 house built 1830 with arms over the front door
which came from Ashurst House on Highgate West Hill, removed by Thomas Townsend
in 1832.

4618th door case.

Townsend Yard. This is a
public right of way and goes to a garden centre. The land has been cultivated
from at least the 17th.It is
named for Thomas Townsend

Cholmeley
Brook – one branch of the brook rises on the east side near Townsend yard

53 Prince
of Wales Pub, This has an entrance both back
and front. Leslie Compton the cricketer was a licensee in the 1960s.

55 this was the shop for Attkins successive generations of pork butchers until
1972

60 weather-boarded 19th shop, at one time a corn chandler's, hence
a hoist over the yard.

61 on this site was the Cage or "lock-up"
and the Watch House until 1811.

62-66 built by Townsend in 1833. This was a pharmacy
founded in 1802 and the post office.

Mineral Water factory- this stood behind the pharmacy. This closed in 1889,
and unearthed during building works in 1977. The factory site, the 'grinding
house' for pharmaceutical preparation and the warehouse are now offices.A cistern for water supply is preserved in
the basement.

82 shops with wooden canopies in front, originally to shade perishable
wares.This was a butcher’s shop where
many fittings and implements remain. The slaughter-house, with beams and
pulleys, is behind and in the garden a low building with calf pens.

86 Rose and Crown. A pub was here in the 18th. The name symbolises
the union of York and Lancaster in the marriage of Henry VI and Elizabeth of
York.

93 Barnhouse. Modernist building by Taylor
Hussey

Highgate graveyard.This was the burial
ground of the old chapel. The tomb of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, was moved from here into St. Michael's church in
1961. The boundary wall is listed, is 18th
and 19th in brick.

Site of chapel of St.Michael, when the Bishop of London
was given the Manor of Haringey by William the Conqueror, this part of the
estate was a hunting-park He appointed a priest and gave some eight acres at the
very top of the hill as a chantry. The chapel was built and became the chapel
of the village. In 1564 an Act of Parliament abolished all chantries and
confiscating their lands. So in 1565 the school was founded, there was no
chapel and the lands had all been sold. It took them five years to recover the
property. In 1578 Bishop Sandys built at his own cost a chapel on the hilltop
site on school properly. It was a substantial brick building with a square
brick tower and a timber roof supported on oak columns. It was pulled down in
1833.

Parish markers. On the pavement
and show the boundaries of St.Mary's Hornsey and St. Pancras. This is the ancient
boundary of manor, parish, and remain as that between the boroughs of Camden
and Haringey.

Cable house for the tramway was on the east
side at the top of the hill

Highgate Hill

This is a bypass of 1386, since the old
Roman road went through Kilburn.It was
the main road out of London until 1813 and very difficult because of the hill. There
is a Norman legend of a thief caught in a maze trying to get up the hill – and
it is a sort of ziggurat.It also had
the first cable tramway in Europe. At the summit five roads meet at a junction
and three boroughs converge here as did their predecessor parishes.

Retaining wall which is
listed. This is between the pavement and the higher paved walk going to 104 –
110s. It is 18th
red brick with 19th Wrought iron railings

Channing School for Girls. Channing House
Built at the top of the hill and opened in 1885 in what was then Sutherland
House.Channing was an American
Unitarian and the school was opened Rev. Robert Spears for daughters of
Unitarian clergy. The School owns and used many buildings in Highgate Hill and
has others it has built since. Haigh House was built in 1954 to replace bombed
buildings of Channing School. There are also sports grounds and playing fields.

104 Cromwell House.This was used
as an Ormond Street Hospital convalescent home and then the Ghana High
Commission. It was originally a free-standing country house, built in 1637-8 by
Richard Sprignell, a trained band captain. It is one of the best of surviving
examples of the 'artisan style' of City craftsmen whose hallmark is the
elaborate treatment of brick detail. A bay over a carriageway was added in
1678-9 by the da Costas, the first Jewish family to own such property in
England since the Middle Ages. The roof and cupola were restored after a fire
in 1865. In 1987-9 it was converted to offices by Garden & Godfrey and a
matching extension was added. Inside stairs run around a narrow open well with carving
of military trophies, and replica statuettes in military costume.

106 Ireton House. This is half of what was originally a single 18th
building with Lyndale House as the other half.

108 Lyndale House. This is a farm rebuilt in 1720.It was originally a single building
with Ireton House as the other half.

110 Margaret House
from 1730 in red brick but
the top of it was rebuilt following bombing,

120 Slingley part of Channing
House School which bought it in 1921.one of a 19th pair,

122 Westview. Part of Channing
House School which leased it in 1885 and bought it in 1901.one of a 19th pair
in brick

128 Ivy House, 17th house which was the home of Victorian publisher,
Charles Knight. Its pair is Northgate House. Leased for dormitories and
offices by Channing School in 1885.

Plaque on the wall to Andrew Marvell's
cottage, demolished in 1867, it says: ‘Four feet below this spot is the stone step,
formerly the entrance to the cottage in which lived Andrew Marvell, poet, wit,
and satirist; colleague with John Milton in the foreign or Latin secretaryship
during the Commonwealth; and for about twenty years M.P. for Hull. Born at
Winestead, Yorkshire, 31st March, 1621, died in London, 18th August, 1678, and
buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
This memorial is placed here by the London County Council, December, 1898’.

K2 telephone kiosk, at the
junction with Dartmouth Park Hill.This
dates from 1927 and was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott

90 Old Crown. This originally stood
where medieval Hornsey Lane was crossed by Highgate Hill. It was re-built in
1898 on a site higher up the hill

St Joseph's Retreat. Built as the chief clergy house of the
Passionist Fathers and it was added to the
church in 1874-5 by F. W. Tasker.It is
modelled on a rustic Italian villa and wraps round the end of the church. It is in white
brick with Doulton dressings.

St.Joseph's RC. Monastery on the site of the Black Dog Inn. Opened by Cardinal Manning 1888.The monastery was built before the church which
is the Passionists'
motherhouse in England

St.Joseph’s
Church.Large prominent landmark on the
hillside at the meeting of two major roads. Originally E.W. Pugin was approached, but his design was too
expensive and in 1861, a church to the design of J Bird was opened, in 1863. It
was demolished in 1888, and replaced in 1889 with the present church by Albert Vicars. It was
built to celebrate Pope Leo XIII’s Jubilee. It has a dome on an octagonal drum.
Inside the light from the dome’s lantern sheds a dramatic light on a baldacchino.It contains carvings, and paintings and much
else. The altar in St. Michael's Chapel had been shown at the Paris Exhibition
of 1900.The Reliquary was designed by
Cardinal Wiseman.A Crucifixion painting
is attributed to Lord Leighton.

Orchard –
there is an orchard and other grounds to the rear.

Winchester Hall, this stood on the corner of
Hornsey Lane and was demolished in the 1880s and sold to a housing development
company

Highgate West Hill

Once known as
Highgate Rise. Numbering has changed for many buildings and is in any case eccentric

40 private health clinic with a plaque about its predecessor, the Fox and
Crown. The pub landlord saved Queen Victoria from a runaway horse, and so got
the Royal Coat of Arms. It was demolished by the 1930s

47 Apothecary House. Built around
1730 with 19th additions. It was leased by William Wetherell,
an apothecary, in 1788, and it was later the home of the geologist Dr.
Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell. It is a brick house and there is a rainwater
cistern is dated 1789.

48 Gatehouse.Half-timbered pub
reconstructed in 1905. It is on site of the gateway which went over the road as
an archway. It had been built in 1386 – a wall plaque describes it. A toll was payable
here to the Bishop of London as Lord of the Manor. In the old inn an upstairs
room was used in the 19th as a magistrate's court and previously the
manor court. It was here that 'swearing on the horns' started - the horns were
on the door to welcome drovers.The tradition began
when herds of cattle were driven through Highgate on their way to slaughter in
Smithfield.Highgate was an overnight
stop for drovers and travellers were, for a small fee, required to take an oath
and become 'a freeman of Highgate'.The
visitor stood before a 'judge' and a 'clerk' – who held the horns - and
promises 'not to eat brown bread when white is to be had; nor drink small beer
when strong ale is available; nor kiss the maid when the mistress is about,
but, sooner than miss a chance, kiss then both'.A 'freeman' who is drunk and sees three pigs
in the gutter has the right to kick the middle one out of the way and lay down
between the other two The gateway itself
was demolished because it was too low for high wagons. It was also the site of one of the three
gates that into the Bishop’s park.

49-50 was originally one house, built in 1850 as Highgate's
new police station.

53 Grove House. This is a large house next to the
Reservoir and standing on what was the old course of Hampstead Lane before it
was moved further north in the late 18th. 18th with an attic
storey added in 1858. It was used as Grove House School for boys in 1825 and lasted, under only
three successive headmasters, until 1930 It became well known as 'Fenner's' after
its first principal, Zachariah Fenner, whose sister conducted a girls' school
and who retired in1872.

54 Pond House is 18th

77 The Flask Tavern. Despite the plaque on the building it cannot be dated
earlier than the 18th. The
earlier building was used for the sessions of the manor court of Cantelowes.
The outside is modest late 18th but inside appear earlier. It is named because
flasks of Hampstead mineral water could be bought here in the 18th taken from
the Hampstead wells.. In the 1970s a discreet ‘Georgian’ extension was added by E. W. Edwards.

79 is on a site noted in 1493, and the site
of the White Hart in 1664, which was the easternmost of a row of cottages

80 Cutbush's Nursery. This was their shop before
1918.

Holly Terrace.Eleven houses, built
in 1807 on the site of a larger house, with balconies and gates facing towards
London over the former grounds of the Holly Lodge Estate which sold them in 1922 and

South Grove
House. Sold by the Holly Lodge Estate in 1922

Mound
over the Reservoir installed by the New
River Company in 1845, bringing the first piped water to Highgate. Pavilion
built at the same time Pavilion: brick with painted
stucco, the New River Company water reservoir, which acquired the land upon
which the reservoir stands in 1844. Also listed railings with lotus flower
terminals set each seventeenth upright.

Witanhurst.Largest private house in London after
Buckingham Palace. Its nucleus is an 18th house called Parkfield and
it was built in 1913 for the Sunlight soap millionaire Sir Arthur Crosfield by George
Hubbard.It is a neo-Georgian
mansion with an interior designed in a variety of styles by Percy McQuoid, and includes a ballroom. The grounds were the scene of
annual tennis parties which Lady Crosfield gave from the 1920s to her death in
1963 at which many famous Wimbledon players came to meet members of the
aristocracy and royalty. The house has been semi derelict for many years.

Hillcrest. Built 1946-9 by T. P. Bennett for
the Borough of Hornsey seven blocks of local authority flats - one of the first
British post-war housing schemes, and formally opened in 1949.Built among trees on part of the site of the Park
House penitentiary. The blocks are named after the leading British Commanders
of the Second World War. For a cost-conscious council the blocks are generously
laid out, preserving trees from the grounds of Park House, with the lower
buildings at the front – ‘a municipal version of Le Corbusier's vision’. But
although they were built only ten years after Highpoint Two, ‘they are
separated from it by the years of war and austerity'.

The flats are on a mound which has been suggested
to be the site of a fortification built during the Napoleonic Wars as part of a
defensive line along the Northern Heights. Probably a windmill there in the
past.

Holmesdale Road

The road was built up by 1896

Jackson’s Lane

Medieval road from Highgate to the village
church at Hornsey, This was a bridle way across the common, with a narrow
roadway

Bank Point. house edged in the fork

Flats - part of the development on the Southwood House site from
the 1950s. This is a development with communal gardens.

Kingsley Place

Houses. Yellow
brick houses of one, two or three storeys, stepping down a steep slope, by the
Architects' Co-Partnership, c. 1967. Also won a Ministry of Housing design
award in 1968 and a Civic Trist Award.

33 Southwood Lodge.Late 18th house in stock brick. Fire insurance
sign on the 1st floor. Now divided into two and with a hidden garden
laid out last century on a steeply sloping site

North Hill

The Great
North Road descends North Hill to meet the 'lower road' ofthe cutting.

Highpoint One. International
modern by Lubetkin and Tecton built in 1936 & 1938 for Sigmund Gestetner to
house employees at his Tottenham Hale factory.The outstanding modern movement building of its day which even Le
Corbusier praised. It is in a double cruciform shape with eight flats on each floor and
small rooms for maids below. It is built of reinforced concrete in a special
system devised by Ove Arup, reusing the shuttering as the building grew. The
flats have two living rooms and three bedrooms. From the entrance there are
steps to a raised landing and the tearoom overlooking the garden. It was built on the site of previous houses called
The Cedars and some trees remain in the front of the house.

Highpoint Two. This was also
for Gestetner by Lubetkin and Tecton. The entrance appears, but is not,
supported on copies of the Erechtheum caryatids on the Acropolis which Lubetkin
wanted to be a controversial talking point. As the weather was not good to cement
render finish this is brick and tile. The flats are larger - three living
rooms and four bedrooms - arranged in Corbusian fashion so that the living
rooms are double-height. Lubetkin himself lived in the penthouse and it has been restored to include his original furniture. -
The door to the living room has an enlargement of a drop of plankton; the
gardens at the back however are not modernist. They were designed by Clarence
Elliott, who founded Six Hills Nursery at Stevenage in 1907, a specialist in
Alpine plants.

4 This house is thought to have been the
superintendent’s house for Highgate Brewery replaced by Park House and then
used for the superintendent of the penitentiary.
Excavations nearby showed cellars related to the brewery a d a series of
tunnels for beer storage

Kiplings. A grocer's
shop from the 1840s till the 1970s; now an Indian restaurant.

6 St George's House 19th
house.

13 The Bull Inn 18th roadside inn of two storeys. It is said that it
is where painter George Morland used to stay – when it was called The Black
Bull. In the 21st it had the most alarming zoo related wall paper.

Highgate
Brewery. This was extant in the 1670.It
was bought 1806-9 by John Cooper from a John Addison who had himself purchased
it from the Southcote family and then moved the brewing to Homerton. John
Cooper dismantled it and turned the lands into his Town House Estate. It was
sold later in the 19th and became a special school. The London Diocesan Penitentiary had been formed
following a donation in an 1853 for a house for the “reformation of penitent
fallen women". In 1855 a lease had been taken out on Park House and it was bought
outright in 1861.In 1900 it was taken
over by the Clewer Order of Sisters and, then became the House of Mercy. It was
closed in 1940. Hillcrest flats are on the site.

North Road

Old trunk route.This was an Elizabethan road which led
through a gate into the Bishop's park.In
1767 it was a wooden causeway which was renewed, trees cut down and
levelled.Up to about 1890 the road was
lined with shops which on the east side stretched past Castle Yard as far as
Park Walk - Houses have replaced all of them.

Highgate School.Founded by
Roger Cholmeley 1565. He was once Recorder of London, Lord Chief Baron of the
Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of England – but at odds with Mary Tudor and
retired here. Elizabeth gave him permission to found a free school on common
land – the Hermitage - given by the Bishop in 1565. In his will he provided for
a school to be built.However most of
the buildings between Southwood Lane and North Road date from 1866. Ex-pupils -
called Old Cholmeleians - include Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Betjeman and
Anthony Crosland. T.S. Eliot taught here.

Old School Building.Now the schools’ principal hall, with
classrooms underneath. Built 1865-7 by Frederick Pepys
Cockerell for the Reverend Dr. Dyne, headmaster in Red brick. It is a first-floor
hall with a stage, with external stairs and an imperial stairway added as war
memorial in 1949. The main facade has a sundial inscribed 'Vera Loqui aut
Silere'. The lead parapet is inscribed 'R S 1565'.The stage was set up in 1933 with
panelling donated 1934 by Edward Jeudwine

Highgate School Chapel. Designed
1865-6 by Frederick Pepys Cockerell in red brick and inside polychromatic
coloured bricks with stone and tiles. Built as
a memorial to G.E.Crawley, a governor and benefactor. In
the undercroft is a pump, wooden benches and a First World War Memorial. There
is a Boer War Memorial at the entrance door. There are two organs, stained glass,
including
memorials. One window was replaced in 1953 after bomb damage.

War Memorial at Highgate
School. Erected in 1921. The design is the 'Cross of Sacrifice' of 1919 by
Reginald Blomfield. Portland stone cross on octagonal plinth with a bronze
sword.

1-7 19th. Cottages with characteristic long front gardens of 1829

6 early 19th with a curved Tuscan porch

9 discreetly tucked away behind
a small entrance courtyard the first house built by Walter Segal for himself in
1962-8. In the garden is the temporary building used while the house was under
construction, a prototype for Segal's lightweight self-build houses developed
later elsewhere

10 villa with Gothic windows

13 Byron House. 18th
house with 19th stuccoed front. It was Byron
House School1897 -1962 –a co-educational prep
school

15 Hampton Lodge.18th
house of 3 storeys with iron gate.

St.Michael’s
Church of England Primary School. The early years of
this school demonstrate an important step in primary educational planning,
involving greater Government spending and the provision of a wider range of
facilities. It had been set up in Southwood Lane as an alternative to
the expensive Cholmeley School.In 1850 by Harry Chester of South Grove, assistant
secretary to the Privy Council committee on education, and the Rev. T. H.
Causton who lived locally got an unprecedentedly large government grant. They
opened a school here designed by fashionable architect Anthony Salvin and this
opened in 1852. There were also three teachers' houses and twelve dormitories
and land for a farm. It was managed by a distinguished committee and was a
showplace. However idealism waned and parents demanded a more conventional
education, there were many vacancies and it was reorganised in 1922.The Infants' playground is in front and
reached by a narrow driveway.A new
junior department by architects Barren & Smith was opened in 1972 by
Margaret Thatcher, then Minister of Education –there is a plaque in the entrance
porch.

Fire station for the Borough of Hornsey, jolly, half
timbered.Became an ambulance station,
now flats. 1981 Chas Palmer of Timothy Brice Dick Associates. Half-timbered with a tower from 1896. Station rebuilt
in 1906 according to inscription on building. Date of original unknown Frank
van der Weerden - Originally Hornsey MB. In use as a substation by Hornsey MB,
station closed before WWII but reopened during the Blitz

19 Sycamores. Brick house with a big front door and weather-boarding
on the side. In the 18th this was the Bear Inn. Thomas Bennett
architect of the Saville Theatre lived here from 1932

17 The Sycamores Byron Cottage. It has a
G.L.C. blue plaque placed there in 1969 to commemorate
the residence here of A.E. Housman, during which he wrote "A Shropshire
Lad". It is where he lived while teaching University College

21 The Sycamores 18th
brick house

25 Red Lion and Sun.Not to be confused with the since demolished Red Lion coaching inn. This
was made up of three old cottages. Rebuilt 1928.

28 Garner Maths Block of Highgate School, This block was opened by Lord
Garner in 1983. In the paving of the courtyard behind are preserved the granite
setts that formed the floor of stables kept there by a job master.

31 Petrol Station in what was the Bell and
Horns Pub

45 Old Forge. This is the site of a shoeing forge which operated
from c.1800 until the last proprietor, Thomas Hayhoe, died in 1926

47-49 started as a single grand 18th house. Urns on the
parapet.

51 Gloucester House, was a grocer's in the first half of the 19th,
then a boys' preparatory school

53-55 originally one house, which in the 1870s was a girls'
school called Claremont House.

57 Grimshaw
Close. Highgate United Synagogue

Grimshaw Close.
Council flats built 1933 on the site of demolished cottages

59 Northfield
Hall. An Athenaeum was proposed in 1859 only partly realized with the opening
of Northfield hall in 1878 which included a house and two committee rooms.The Territorials in the shape of the 1st
Volunteer Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) moved
to the new Northfield hall, to which a commemorative stone was taken. It was
also used as a gym by Highgate School and in the 1880s for petty sessions. It
has been sold and redesigned as offices and flats.

92 is next to the site of the Red Lion. The Dickens family stayed here in
1832 to escape creditors..

98 Wrestlers Tavern. Pub goes back to 1547 and there is a plaque on it about
the horns ceremony, the present building is 1921. In 1961 the publican restarted
the the
300-year-old ceremony of 'swearing on the horns'.

109-117 Prospect Place, pleasant group of 1811. Raised up on a bank.

193-215
enclave
of two-storey red brick terraces early council housing of 1902 by the Hornsey
Borough Engineer, E.J. Lovegrove, similar to Hornsey's other early estate but
also including some cottage flats.

Gateway and bell of Highgate
School. The 19th brick archway and bell are remnants of the time when
Sir Roger Cholmeley's Grammar School was a virtual charity school. The wrought
iron gates to the forecourt were erected to mark the school's tercentenary in
1865. From Castle Yard to the High Street the land between North Road and
Southwood Lane is owned by Highgate School, as it has been for more than 400
years.

Wrought iron gates for Cholmeley School’s
tercentenary 1865

Northwood Road

Cholmeley
Brook –goes along this road having crossed Archway Road

2c
Northwood Road Practice

Park House Passage

Footpath which connects North Hill and
Talbot Road

A raised grassy bank is the site of the
village pound for stray animals

Park Walk

Footpath which went alongside the women's
penitentiary between Southwood Lane and Jackson Lane. Part of the Park House
estate, hence the name.

Pond Square

So called because there was a pond there
which was filled in in 1864.It is a
registered 'town green' with mature plane trees and managed by the local
authority.It is on the Site of Pond’s
Farm by William Paterson founder of the Bank of England. Features in David
Copperfield as his first married home.Said to be haunted
by the ghost of the chicken which killed Francis Bacon.

1-5 18th houses

6 Rock House. Built in 1777 and named from a Mr Rock lived there in
the 1840s. In the 1870s it was the Highgate Dispensary.

45-46, houses with rainwater
head dated 1729.

47 18th
house

Somerset Gardens

Housing developments. With pitched roofs and timber cladding built by architects, Andrews Sherlock & Partners.
An extension of Kingsley Place,

South Grove

Pond
Square Chapel. United Reform Church – also used as a nursery and for arts
events. Erected in 1858 by Architect T.
Roger Smith. In 1967 the Highgate Congregational Church merged with Highgate
Presbyterian Church on Pond Square to form the Highgate United Reformed Church.
Funding from the sale of the Presbyterian Church allowed for a major
refurbishment of Pond Square Chapel which re-opened in 1984

9 Russell House 18th house,

10 Church House.Detached 18th
house in brick,The house grew from a 17th
cottage, was at one time owned by Roger Cholmeley and a previous resident was
Sir John Hawkins. Thought to be the model for Steerforth’s home in
Dickens’ David Copperfield. It
was the residence of the Jewish school master Leopold Neumegen first professor
of Hebrew at London University. A Jewish academy was
established here by 1802 under Hyman Hurwitz, The premises on the west were converted
into Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution in1840

10a belongs to the Highgate Society and was
the Jewish school schoolroom.The Cottage
was the sleeping quarters. Now used by the Highgate Society

11 Highgate Literary
and Scientific Institution.ThisLecture
hall was built in 1879 in what was previously the stable yard of Church
House.It was inspired by Harry Chester,
later chair of RSA. It is a members-only club with a private library, a
reading room-meeting hall founded in 1839 to promote 'useful and scientific
knowledge. The original building was previously used as a school; the front and
porch from 1882. Behind is the lecture hall with high timber roof and central
lantern, added by Rawlinson Parkinson in 1879; the original hall at the back
became the library - Victoria Hall and Coleridge Room.

12 Old
Dairy

14 Moreton House.The house of
1715 was originally one of a pair, and only one room deep until the 19th
and it was subdivided into floors soon after it was built. Dr.Gillman and
Coleridge lived there and it was Coleridge’s first Highgate home - the two top
left-hand windows of the old house marked his room.It was burnt down 1983 and rebuilt by Julian Harrap.

16
is by
Leonard Malmo c. 1961, on older foundations, and with a later roof

17 Old Hall.Probably
rebuilt 1691, which is the date on the rain head. It is the remains of Arundel
House where Elizabeth was prisoner on her way to the Tower. It was the home of Thomas
Howard, Earl of Arundel 1585-1646, and where Sir Francis Bacon died and the incident
of the refrigerated chicken happened. Arbella Stuart was also here. Lead pipes were
installed for water in 1626.It is a brown and red brick building with an iron
gate. The grounds were divided up in the late 17th; on the site of the
banqueting house and Sir William Ashurst, Lord Mayor in 1693, built a grand
house with pediment and cupola. This was demolished for St Michael's Church;
its grounds became Highgate Cemetery. Novelist Rumer Godden lived in the
current house until 1998.

18 Voel House. 17th house with a later top storey.

Milestone standing in front of 18

30 18th

Angel Row cottages
which were behind the Angel Inn

St. Michael's church. Built onthe site of
Ashurst House, home of Thomas Townsend in 1832.It was built to replace the old school chapel and became the centre of
Highgate's first ecclesiastical parish in its own right. The architect was Lewis
Vulliamy who produced a landmark spire and three bare wooden galleries. There are memorial
tablets to Coleridge and the Gillmans on the north wall andColeridge
was re-interred under the central aisle in 1961is mentioned by Dickens in David
Copperfield. The east window was done by Evie Hone before she died in 1955.

Traffic Island: a horse chestnut tree planted by Sir Yehudi Menuhin,
the violinist, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Highgate Society, founded in
1966, of which he was President.

Southwood Lane

The road follows a right of way across
Highgate Common along the eastern side of the Bishop of London's park. It
provided an alternative route northwards for those who did not want to pay the
toll. It also led to the Mus Well – a curative spring - which was also on one
of the main medieval roads to the north. The east side of the lane between the High
Street and Kingsley Place is lined with Georgian town houses. Some of them are
on the foundations on earlier houses with some timber-framing.

Cholmeley
Brook – one branch of the brook rises on the east side near the High Street

Cholmeley
Brook – one branch of the brook rises near the site of the former Southwood
hospital

Graveyard wall .The Southwood
Lane frontage is higher, as the land falls away, and includes 19th
cast-iron railings, with spear tops and classical urns. The wall is attached to
Highgate School chapel

2-8 18th

10 18th house in brick.

12Late 18th brick house

15 19th
brick house with older building behind

18probably 17th.

20 19th house

20a 19th house

22 Avalon, Plaque put in place in 1975 to Mary Kingsley who
blew up the garden with gunpowder. The Plaque says ‘traveller and ethnologist,
lived here as a child'.

70 Linear House.Single storey
house with sustainable features. Built on part of the Hospital gardens.Its western side is sunk into the hillside so
the house is almost invisible from the north and west.Most of its roof is covered with meadow
flowers and grass.

70 Southwood Court - Southwood Hospital Opened in 1953 for female geriatric patients,
the hospital was enlarged from a former orphanage and occupied a previously
private mansion called The Limes built before 1815. In 1921 The Limes it had
been bought by the Furniture Trades' Provident and Benevolent Institution, who
converted it as a children's home "for fatherless children of
members".They named it Radlett
House, after their former children's homes in Radlett, Herts, which had been
established in 1905. In 1940 the orphanage moved and Radlett House was leased
to the Middlesex County Council, and it became a hospital for chronically ill
patients. In 1948 Radlett House joined the NHS. The Hospital closed in 1991
with 22 beds. The Hospital building is now called Southwood Court.In 2004 it was converted by Cityshape into a
terrace of six large family houses of 5 bedrooms each.

87 with a date plaque of 1883. For many years Highgate School's
sanatorium.

Highgate Baptist
Tabernacle. 19th stuccoed
building if 1836 with cast iron lamp holders. It was originally founded by Presbyterians just after the 1665 Act
forbidding nonconformists to preach within a five mile radius of the City. It
was acquired for Highgate School’s sixth form in 1977.

Dyne House. Five-storey Highgate School arts block by Architects
Ansell & Bailey. Opened in 1967 by Yehudi Menuhin, then a local resident,
and has a fine underground auditorium. It was named after Rev. J.B. Dyne the
Headmaster who was a 'second founder'.

Highgate British School founded in 1852, as a result
of nonconformist disillusion with St.Michael's. In 1859, it was in cramped
premises in Southwood Lane. It was replaced by Highgate Board School in the
1890s and moved to North Hill. The old
premises were sold to Cholmeley's school, as to become laboratories.

Highgate postal sorting office, built in 1888. Now in other use.

99 site of Hornsey local board offices. They used the old highway board
offices, until in 1869 when they moved into the purpose built offices here on
land leased from the London Diocesan Penitentiary. They were considered
unsuitable and replaced by the Town Hall in Crouch End in 1934-5 and demolished
in 1968.

Stone bollards marking the site of the public well from which some of
Highgate's drinking water was drawn before the piped supply came.

123 Well Cottage. Deep well in the front garden and Sun Insurance Co.
insurance mark. Named after the village well which was outside.The mid-18th house was originally two Bow
Street Runners' cottages.

Woolaston-Paunceforth Almshouses.Founded in the 17th a single storey row
with taller centre for a girls' charity.The houses date from 1722 when the
original almshouses were re-built and enlarged. The Pauncefote Charity School
for Girls was in the centre house. An inscription over the door gives tells of
their foundation by Sir John Woolaston in 1658 and
their rebuilding to double the number by Edward Pauncefort in 1722. Until
1988 the almshouses had outdoor sanitation only, and each dwelling a single
tap, but they have been modernised for the six old ladies instead of twelve.

Southwood Lawn Road

Southwood Park. Two brutalist,
redbrick blocks built 1966 by Douglas Stephen & Partners. Built on the site
of Southwood Court,

Southwood Court was demolished in 1965, and
had been the home of Lord Southwood Chairman of Odham's Press. Landscaped
grounds kept for residents.

Old gateway to Southwood Court. On the wall the Johnson family crest of a winged spur
and the motto nunquam non paratus (Always be prepared). John Grove Johnson, an
assayer to the Bank of England, lived in Southwood Court from about 1880 when
it was built.

Swains Lane

Was probably Swine Lane originally, since
pigs were driven up it to be slaughtered.

Transmitter. This dates from 1937 and is associated
with early TV broadcasting from Alexandra Palace.Buildings on the north side were associated
with it.

Highgate Cemetery. The cemetery was built on
the site of Highgate Parish Farm.It was
one of seven cemeteries built between 1831 and 1841 as a result of public
concern on the insanitary state of London's churchyards. These cemeteries were
modelled on the garden cemeteries of Napoleonic France. It was built by a
joint-stock company founded by Act of Parliament. The architect was Stephen
Geary, who otherwise built pubs and is buried here. The Lodge is now
demolished.There are Chapels at the
Gate in ‘Undertakers Gothic’, which were closed in 1956. There is an Egyptian
Avenue and an Egyptian inner circle in a line of cedar trees.Bunning built catacombs but the Portland
cement used did not last, they included a Hydraulic bier. Beer mausoleum closed
in 1975.Traitors Hill was subsumed in
the cemetery. Until 1939, both this, and the southern extension, were
maintained on formal lines as grassed areas landscaped with flower beds and specimen
trees. In the 1940s maintenance stopped and it was closed in 1975. In response
the Friends of Highgate Cemetery was formed.Ownership was acquired by a small company in 1981, and was transferred
to the Official Custodian for Charities in 1988. The cemetery is mainly
secondary woodland consisting of stands of sycamore or ash. Large mature trees
hint at the original layout.

85
In 1982
architect John Winter designed the Winter House here. After thirty years it was
clear it would need complete reconstruction. In 2005 it was demolished and
replaced by a new residence, built on the footprint of the previous, designed
by Eldridge Smerin Architects

Gates
and Lodge to Waterlow Park.Castellated lodge of 1840. This
was at the carriage entrance to Waterlow Park when it was part of a private
estate

91-103, a neat terrace of pale yellow
brick, Haxworth & Kasabov, 1970-2; living rooms on the top floor.

The Grove

The road is set back from the side of the
green with a Georgian terrace and views over London.

1-6 once known as Quality Walk built 1688 on the site of Dorchester House.Dorchester House had been home to courtier.
Henry Pierrepoint, Marquess of Dorchester.The houses were built by City by
merchant William Blake to fund a charity school and an early example of an
urban terrace.

1 handsome gate. This was joined to No.2 in.1900 for use as a school. Subsequently
in the 1930s home of actress Gladys Cooper and Neville Pearson. From 1959 home
of violinist Yehudi Menuhin until 1983.

3 Plaque to Samuel Taylor
Coleridge who lived here from 1823 until
his death. Coleridge was addicted to laudanum, and came to Highgate in 1816 to
seek a cure. He lived here with Dr. Gillman and his family. Plaque to J.B.
Priestley novelist and playwright who lived here in the 1930s - He bought it with
the money he made from The Good Companions.

Park of 26 acres given to London County Council by Sir
Sidney Waterlow.Waterlow, the printer
was also Lord of the Manor and Chair of the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company. Waterlow gave the grounds to the people of London as a
'garden for the gardenless'. The grounds include what is said to be Nell
Gwynn's bath marble bath and fireplace and old iron support.There is a hollow and a pond garden first
noted in the 17th, Statues and exotic trees.More ponds have been built since the park was opened and there is a bridge over a cascade
linking the upper and lower lakes..

Wall – said to be to Andrew Marvell’s garden,
and there is a plaque to this.

Sundial with dedication by
Andrew Marvell, whose cottage stood only a few yards from here in the late 17th

Sir Sydney Waterlow statue with
hat, bronze umbrella and keys - the key to the park to be given to the public. As relaxed as if he
was going for a walk. Believed to be the
only statue in London which features an umbrella.He was the last owner of
Lauderdale House. He is surrounded by late 19th planting by F.M Taubman.

Lauderdale House.The beginnings of Lauderdale House are unclear.
Neither the name of the architect or the builder is known, or indeed the date. A
young London goldsmith, Richard Martin, lived here in the late 1580s. In the
course of the restoration work in the 1960s, the skeleton of a chicken and
demonological objects were found in the external walls. At the end of the 16th
John Povey, a lawyer lived there and – was host to Arbella Stuart. It continued
to have number of distinguished owners, mainly lawyers. In 1649 it was leased
to John Ireton a Cromwellian future Lord Mayor. Lauderdale returned there at
the restoration and became Secretary of State for Scotland. At some stage Nell
Gwynne may have lived there. In the 18th it was a school, and Later
Sir Sidney Waterlow acquired it and leased it to a hospital before presenting
it to the London County Council with the park. Since 1968 it has been a centre
for exhibitions, concerts and other events.There is a Cafe at the front and tables outside. The house itself is a
much-altered remnant of a partly timber 16th house but there is little to see. Despite its appearance the house is Elizabethan. The
cellars survive and there is some other restoration and repairs after
damage by fires in 1963 and 1968.

The Elms. The house
and garden were part of what is now Waterlow Park in the 19th when
it was home to Sir James Pennethorne the architect.

Image. Sculpture on bonded bronze by Naomi Blake. On the
Upper Lake. Hollow oval form with a solid ball at the top.Sited on an island.

Winchester Road

Solid middle class housing by the Imperial Property Investment Company after the
demolition of Winchester Hall

Witenhurst Lane

Bromwich House. Completed after a planning enquiry in 1996 butPlanned in 1986
by Elena Keats. Interiors by Conley & Webb. Living rooms at the top level, and
a diamond- shaped swimming pool